Tag: Dukkha
She is so bored with her day that she goes to the Google News for distraction. She is so bored…
Super Short Story (180): Tragicomedy Of Life He realised that even good comedies run out of laughs after some time….
From ‘Young Blood’, as covered by Birdy… Lyrics: We’re only young and naive still We require certain skills The mood…
Instead of dreading the unexpected curve balls of life thrown at him, he decided to anticipate them best he can,…
Thoughts before jumping out of bed: Instead of just asking why we sleep, how about wondering why we wake up?…
Gil tells Adriana in ‘Midnight in Paris’, when they travelled back in time to an era of Paris (Belle Epoque)…
Detail from Segantini’s ‘The last task of the day’. Reminds me of the Dukkha of life’s routine burdens and dreariness,…
Colour was my visit-long obsession and joy too, gazing upon Monet’s works, learning about his hard life, which makes his…
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. – Alfred Hitchcock S: Dukkha (suffering) is…
Some discomfort is good. That from recognising Dukkha drives us to Nirvana. Some discomfort is not good. That from denying…
An unnerving passage by Steven Grant, in Warren Ellis’ ‘Scars’. ‘If they weren’t there and I saw them, there’s something drastically…
If you focus only on the bad things in your life, you’ll miss the good things in your life, and…
Squeezing some ice, he screams in pain. But he only had to let it go to end the needless pain….
Anxiety inspires. Angst inspires. Pain inspires. Dukkha inspires. 烦恼即菩提 Afflictions are Bodhi Related Article: Troubling-ness https://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/troubling-ness
The magical ulcer in my mouth seems to come from nowhere, to grow and grow. It doesn’t seem to go,…
I always wondered what is the moral of the story of ‘The Princess and the Pea’. Does it sing the…
A drop of water at the hot-and-cold water dispenser dripped on a finger. For a second, I couldn’t decide if…
A good translator can be both satisfied and unsatisfied: unsatisfied with other translations seen, which urges one to come up…
Q: Sometimes, suffering may not be a bad thing. A: Suffering is ‘useful’ only if it spurs one to advance…
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